The best Trainerize studio alternatives for a gym with several coaches are Everfit Studio, TrueCoach, Exercise.com and a gym account on Mesostrength.
Which one fits depends on three things: how coaches share programming, who is allowed to see which clients, and what the whole gym pays at 60, 150 or 300 clients.
I checked each platform's official pricing and help pages in November 2026. Where a page was silent on team rules, I say so instead of guessing.
Key takeaways
- Trainerize Studio Plus is priced per location, listed at $248 a month on its plan card, and its pricing page does not spell out shared templates or coach permissions.
- Everfit Studio starts at $105 a month for 50 clients, but its pricing page does not say how many coaches are included or what an extra coach costs.
- TrueCoach publishes plans only up to 50 active clients, so a multi-coach gym has to ask for a quote.
- Mesostrength prices the whole gym by client count: Gym Core is $229 a month up to 100 clients, Gym Pro is $299 a month up to 250, and every coach is included.
- Mesostrength is not cheapest at small client counts, and it does not do class booking, membership billing, door access or nutrition. Your gym keeps its management software for those.
What should a gym with several coaches actually need from training software?
A gym with several coaches needs five things: one shared library, controlled client access, clean handoffs, floor logging and a total price that does not punish growth.
Solo coach tools bolt a second seat onto a one-person design. Gym tools start from the team.
Here is the checklist I use when I look at any platform for a team:
- Shared exercise library and templates. Every coach should program from the same exercise names, form videos and notes.
- Access rules. The owner decides whether a coach sees every client or only assigned ones.
- Handoffs. When a coach leaves or a client moves, the history stays with the client.
- Floor logging. A coach can log a session on a phone or iPad for a client who never opens the app.
- Predictable cost. One bill that you can forecast at your real client count.
If you want the longer case for why consistency matters across coaches, I covered it in how to standardize hypertrophy programming across your gym's coaches.
The difference between this software and your booking and billing system is its own topic, laid out in gym programming software vs gym management software.
A gym does not need a coach app with extra seats. It needs a team account where the library, the client list and the bill are all designed for several coaches.
What does the Trainerize studio plan include, and where do teams hit limits?
Trainerize's studio tier is called Studio Plus, and its pricing page lists it at $248 a month per location with seats selectable at 500, 1,000 or more than 1,000.
The page also lists HQ and franchise programming content control and SSO sign-in as features of that tier.
That is a real strength for multi-location operators. A franchise that wants head office to push programming to every site has a clear answer here.
There is one wrinkle on pricing. The plan card says $248, while the FAQ on the same page mentions $275 for up to 500 members.
Annual billing saves 10% on paid plans according to the page, and 5 or more locations moves to custom pricing.
The pricing page does not state how many trainers a plan includes, and it does not describe shared templates, a shared exercise library or trainer permissions.
The permissions picture comes from a Trainerize product update.
It describes a Manager role that can access all trainers and clients at a physical location, and a Shared Trainer role that lets a trainer work with clients without being their primary trainer.
Trainers and clients are tied to locations, and multiple locations belong to the Studio and Enterprise plans.
For a single-site gym that is a lot of structure built around a location model you may not need.
Trainerize is also mostly a logger plus a program builder. The coach decides every change, so each coach's clients drift in a different direction.
| Trainerize Studio Plus | What the official page says |
|---|---|
| Price | $248 a month per location (plan card), $275 in the FAQ |
| Seats | 500, 1,000 or 1,000+ |
| Annual discount | 10% on paid plans |
| Team roles | Manager and Shared Trainer, tied to locations |
| Shared templates and library | Not described on the pricing page |
Trainerize Studio Plus is strongest for multi-location groups that need head office control, and weakest for a one-site gym that wants simple team rules written down.
How does Everfit Studio work for a team of coaches?
Everfit Studio is the closest like-for-like option on price transparency, with published tiers from $105 a month for 50 clients up to $430 a month for 500.
Its feature list for Studio includes team member management, group chat, broadcast messages, exercise list upload for your organization and resource and workout collections.
That covers a shared library reasonably well. Upload your exercises once and every coach sees them.
What the pricing page does not say is how many coaches a plan includes or what an extra team member costs. Ask before you sign.
On access, Everfit's help center explains that an assigned coach or admin can add teammates to a client.
Added teammates get full permission to manage that client, but they cannot archive or remove the client, and the article says selective permissions were still coming.
The article does not say whether a coach can be limited to only their own clients.
That matters if you run a gym where coaches should not see each other's rosters.
The tiers are generous at small sizes. A 100-client gym pays $165 a month on Studio, or $138 on annual billing.
| Everfit Studio clients | Monthly | Annual (per month) |
|---|---|---|
| 50 | $105 | $88 |
| 100 | $165 | $138 |
| 150 | $205 | $171 |
| 250 | $290 | $242 |
| 500 | $430 | $358 |
Everfit is a fair pick if your priority is a low price and group messaging, and you are comfortable with coaches adjusting every client by hand.
Everfit Studio gives a team a shared exercise list and clear client tiers, but you should get the coach count and access rules in writing before you commit.
Is TrueCoach built for a gym with a team of coaches?
TrueCoach is a respected coaching platform, but its pricing page publishes three plans sized for small rosters, and a team gym will land on custom pricing.
The listed plans are Starter for up to 5 active clients at $26.34 a month, Standard for up to 20 at $57.99 and Pro for up to 50 at $136.99.
The page also advertises free months on annual billing: one month on Starter and two months on Standard and Pro.
Beyond 50 clients, the page says to contact them for special pricing, and its FAQ mentions custom pricing above 250 clients.
Those two thresholds do not line up, so ask which one applies to you.
The pricing page says nothing about team seats, extra coaches or role permissions.
That does not mean TrueCoach lacks them. It means I cannot print a number or a rule without a sales conversation.
For a gym planning around 100 or more clients, TrueCoach is a quote-first purchase.
TrueCoach is easy to evaluate for a small coach and hard to price for a gym, because the published plans stop at 50 clients.
What about Exercise.com for gyms?
Exercise.com is quote-based, so you cannot compare it with the others until you book a demo.
Its platform pricing page lists no plans, prices, client limits or trainer counts, and sends visitors to a "Get a Quote" button.
The page mentions done-for-you data migration from other software, which helps if you are leaving a system with years of history.
It does not say whether migration is included or what it costs.
If you like negotiated, tailored packages, this route suits you. If you want to see a price tonight, it does not.
Quote-only pricing is not a flaw, but it means you need a shortlist of questions ready before the demo.
How does Mesostrength work as a gym account?
Mesostrength for gyms is one account that the owner sets up and every coach joins, with every coach included in the price and clients belonging to the gym.
The exercise library, templates, form videos and exercise notes are shared across the whole gym, so two coaches program from the same menu.
The owner can let coaches see only their assigned clients, which handles the roster privacy problem directly.
Coaches can add a client without sending an invite, then log that client's workouts on the gym floor from a phone or iPad.
That matters for the member who never installs an app. I wrote up the practical setup in logging client workouts on the gym floor.
Clients who do use the app log on their own phones and chat with the team.
They answer the same feedback prompts every member answers, and the engine adjusts sets, weights and deloads between sessions.
That is the real difference from a logger. The coach builds the mesocycle, and the engine moves volume and load between sessions, so a coach reviews exceptions instead of rebuilding spreadsheets.
If you want the mechanics, see how to progress volume across a mesocycle and deload weeks.
Transfers are easier when the history lives with the client, which I explained in how to transfer a client to another coach.
The plans are priced by clients across the whole gym and bought on the website, with a 14-day free trial for up to 250 clients and no credit card. You can see how it works for a team on the gym page.
Now the limits, because you should hear them from me.
Mesostrength is newer and has a smaller community than the established names.
It does not do class booking, membership billing, door access or nutrition. Your gym keeps its management software for those jobs.
It is also not the cheapest option at 60 clients, as the pricing section below shows.
Mesostrength is built around the idea that a gym is a team, which shows up in the shared library, the access setting and the engine that adjusts every client.
Feature Comparison: how do the platforms compare for team gyms?
The table below compares only what each official page states, and marks everything else as not stated.
| Team need | Trainerize Studio Plus | Everfit Studio | TrueCoach | Exercise.com | Mesostrength Gym |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Published team pricing | Yes, per location | Yes, by client tier | Up to 50 clients only | Quote only | Yes, two gym tiers |
| Coaches included | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Every coach included |
| Shared exercise library | Not stated | Exercise list upload | Not stated | Not stated | Yes, plus form videos and notes |
| Shared templates | Not stated on pricing page | Workout collections | Not stated | Not stated | Yes |
| Limit coaches to assigned clients | Location-based roles | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Yes, owner setting |
| Coach logs for client on the floor | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Yes, phone or iPad |
| Engine adjusts sets, weights, deloads | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Yes, between sessions |
| Class booking and billing | Not our focus | Not our focus | Not our focus | Not our focus | No, use your gym software |
The prose version: Mesostrength is the only one here that states floor logging, an access setting for assigned clients and an adjustment engine in the same product description.
That does not prove the others lack those pieces. It means their public pages do not say.
If you have already narrowed to training tools, my best training software for personal training studios focused on muscle growth roundup goes deeper on programming quality.
A comparison of public pages tells you what to ask in a demo, so use the blanks above as your question list.
What does each option cost a gym at 60, 150 and 300 clients?
At 60 clients, Everfit Studio is cheapest at $135 a month, and Mesostrength Gym Core at $229 costs more.
At 150 clients the gap narrows, and at 250 clients Everfit Studio ($290) and Mesostrength Gym Pro ($299) are nearly the same.
Here are the published prices side by side.
| Gym size | Trainerize Studio Plus | Everfit Studio | TrueCoach | Exercise.com | Mesostrength Gym |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60 clients | $248 a month per location | $135 a month (75-client tier) | Custom quote | Custom quote | Gym Core, $229 a month or $2,061 a year |
| 150 clients | $248 a month per location | $205 a month | Custom quote | Custom quote | Gym Pro, $299 a month or $2,691 a year |
| 250 clients | $248 a month per location | $290 a month | Custom quote | Custom quote | Gym Pro, $299 a month or $2,691 a year |
| 300 clients | $248 a month per location | $325 a month | Custom quote | Custom quote | Above the 250-client Gym Pro limit |
Two honest notes on that table.
First, Trainerize's flat per-location price looks excellent at scale, though its own page shows a $275 figure in the FAQ, so confirm which one you are quoted.
Second, Mesostrength's gym plans stop at 250 clients, so a very large gym needs a different conversation with us or a different tool.
The real comparison is not the sticker alone.
If Trainerize or Everfit costs $100 less a month but each coach spends two extra hours a week rebuilding client programs, the cheap option stops being cheap.
One coach billing at, say, $60 an hour for those two hours covers the price gap in a single week.
To see how pricing choices shape the rest of your coaching model, read hybrid coaching for gyms.
Price your gym software against coach hours saved, not against the cheapest sticker, because coach time is the biggest cost in your building.
Which Trainerize studio alternative should your gym pick?
Pick the option that matches your biggest pain, not the one with the longest feature page.
Here is how I would decide:
- You run several locations and need head office control: stay with Trainerize Studio Plus and ask how Manager and Shared Trainer roles map onto your sites.
- You are under 100 clients and price comes first: price Everfit Studio, and get coach seats and access rules in writing.
- You want a quote and a migration partner: book a demo with Exercise.com and ask what migration costs.
- You run one site, 50 to 250 clients, and coaches keep programming differently: try a Mesostrength gym account.
- You need class booking, billing or door access: keep your management software, whichever training tool you choose.
Whatever you choose, test it with real work.
Run a trial with two coaches and ten clients for two weeks, and ask whether a client handoff takes minutes or an afternoon.
Also watch retention. A tool that surfaces slipping clients early earns its fee, and I wrote about the warning signs in signs a coaching client is about to quit.
The questions in what to ask in a weekly client check-in work the same way inside a team.
More comparisons live in Gym Software Comparisons, and ranked lists are in Best Gym Software.
The right tool is the one your whole coaching team will actually use the same way, so trial it with more than one coach.
FAQs
What is the best Trainerize studio alternative for a gym with several coaches?
There is no single winner. Everfit Studio is the cheapest published team option at small sizes, TrueCoach and Exercise.com are quote-first, and Mesostrength is built as one gym account with shared libraries, access settings and an engine that adjusts clients between sessions.
How much does Trainerize Studio Plus cost?
Its pricing page lists $248 a month per location for 500, 1,000 or more members, with a $275 figure in the FAQ and a 10% discount for annual billing. Five or more locations move to custom pricing.
How much does Mesostrength cost for a gym?
Gym Core is $229 a month or $2,061 a year for up to 100 clients across the whole gym, and Gym Pro is $299 a month or $2,691 a year for up to 250 clients. Every coach is included, and there is a 14-day free trial with no credit card.
Can I limit coaches to only their own clients?
In Mesostrength the owner can let coaches see only their assigned clients. For other platforms, the pages I reviewed did not state this clearly, so ask each vendor directly before you buy.
Does Mesostrength replace my gym management software?
No. Mesostrength does not do class booking, membership billing, door access or nutrition, so your gym keeps its management software for those and uses Mesostrength for client programming and logging.